Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:18:29 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Kev <tech@geo.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I access my root partition? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911072116420.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <99110812210602.03756@tech.geo.net.au>
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Kev wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 3 times now, and am becoming increasingly frustrated > by the install programme, namely the fdisk part. I have 3 hard drives in my > machine, disk1 is Win98, disk2 is linux, and I wish to install FreeBSD on the > third. > > I cannot for the life of me seem to successfully write the boot manager to my > primary drive. > > This is what I wish to do: > > 1) Create a BDS partition and slice on disk3 > 2) Write the boot manager to disk1 > 3) Continue with the install process > 4) Boot from disk1, and be able to select any one of these OS's > > The problem is that the booter refuses to look at anything but disk1 and > continually panicks when it can't find a root partition on disk1 when I want > it to look on disk3!!! > > Is there a way that I can edit the /boot/default/loader.conf file from the > spartan command line? i think if at the loader you type: set root_disk_unit=3 (maybe 2?) you'll be able to boot. you'll want to put: root_disk_unit="3" in your /boot/loader.conf -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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